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'''Dan Goeb Patrick''' (born '''Dannie Scott Goeb''';<ref name="Truth">{{cite web|url=http://www.danpatrick.org/truth/|title=The Truth – Name Change » Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor|work=Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor|accessdate=13 January 2015}}</ref> April 4, 1950<ref name="PVS">[https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/57986/dan-patrick#.V-skcWwVBPY Dan Patrick's Biography]. ''Project Vote Smart''. Retrieved September 27, 2016.</ref>) is the 42nd lieutenant governor of [[Texas]], serving since January 2015 and winning his third term in November 2022. Before that, he was a sportscaster and a [[conservative talk radio]] host. Like Texas Gov. [[Greg Abbott]] and many Texas state legislators, Patrick is controlled by the [[Texas oligarchy]] that is right-of-center on [[fiscal]] issues but not [[conservative]].  Patrick is a [[Southern Baptist]].

'''Dan Goeb Patrick''' (born '''Dannie Scott Goeb''';<ref name="Truth">{{cite web|url=http://www.danpatrick.org/truth/|title=The Truth – Name Change » Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor|work=Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor|accessdate=13 January 2015}}</ref> April 4, 1950<ref name="PVS">[https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/57986/dan-patrick#.V-skcWwVBPY Dan Patrick's Biography]. ''Project Vote Smart''. Retrieved September 27, 2016.</ref>) was the 42nd lieutenant governor of [[Texas]], serving since January 2015, winning his third term in November 2022, and then losing by a wide margin in November 2026. Prior to being Lieutenant Governor, Patrick was a sportscaster and a [[conservative talk radio]] host. Like Texas Gov. [[Greg Abbott]] and many Texas state legislators, Patrick was controlled by the [[Texas oligarchy]] that is right-of-center on fiscal issues but not particularly [[socially conservative]].  Patrick is a [[Southern Baptist]].

The sham ambush [[impeachment and removal|impeachment]] of [[conservative]] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on May 27, 2023, unmasked the [[Republican]] officials, including Patrick, who are beholden to the [[Texas oligarchy]] that demanded it.  Patrick immediately appointed the oligarchs' point man in the Senate, Sen. [[Brian Birdwell]], as the chairman of the rules committee for the Senate impeachment trial.

The sham ambush [[impeachment and removal|impeachment]] of [[conservative]] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on May 27, 2023, unmasked the [[Republican]] officials, including Patrick, who are beholden to the [[Texas oligarchy]] that demanded it.  Patrick immediately appointed the oligarchs' point man in the Senate, Sen. [[Brian Birdwell]], as the chairman of the rules committee for the Senate impeachment trial.